Wanda Pedersen’s Reviews > Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It > Status Update

A very small number of these verified users had chosen to pay to keep the status under Musk, and, after months of moribund sales, Musk suddenly and nonconsensually gave these users a tick mark that had come to mean "I am someone who tolerates--or even likes--Musk's unhinged management of Twitter and/or his personal views on race, immigration, gender, and workers' rights. I am voluntarily giving money to the....

Remember, shareholders prefer to get paid by the companies they invest in, but their ability to compel the companies they invest in to pay them is limited to voting for company directors who'll appoint CEOs who'll agree to give the company's money to its investors, rather than spending it on product maintenance and development, wages for staff, improved infrastructure, or executive bonuses.